Sizing Down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing

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1997
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As a slice of history, docudrama and how-to manual, Sizing Down is top-notch. Illes was human resources manager at the Signetics semiconductor plant in Orem, Utah, when, in January 1992, she was notified that the plant would close at the end of the year. It became her task to assist with orchestrating the phase-out of 900 jobs, including her own. . . . Throughout the inevitable juggling of interests, judgments had to be made, some good, some bad, says the author. This relentlessly objective history records them all, along with afterthoughts on how the situation might have been handled better. -Publishers Weekly

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As a slice of history, docudrama and how-to manual, Sizing Down is top-notch. Illes was human resources manager at the Signetics semiconductor plant in Orem, Utah, when, in January 1992, she was notified that the plant would close at the end of the year. It became her task to assist with orchestrating the phase-out of 900 jobs, including her own. . . . Throughout the inevitable juggling of interests, judgments had to be made, some good, some bad, says the author. This relentlessly objective history records them all, along with afterthoughts on how the situation might have been handled better. -Publishers Weekly

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 17 Apr 1997
ISBN 10: 0801484340
ISBN 13: 9780801484346

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As a slice of history, docudrama, and how-to manual, Sizing Down is top-notch. Illes was human resources manager at the Signetics semiconductor plant in Orem, Utah, when, in January 1992, she was notified that the plant would close at the end of the year. It became her task to assist with orchestrating the phase-out of nine hundred jobs, including her own. . . . Throughout the inevitable juggling of interests, judgments had to be made, some good, some bad. . . . This relentlessly objective history records them all, along with afterthoughts on how the situation might have been handled better. -Publishers Weekly
The strength of Illes's book is the . . . summary at the end of each chapter. She gives suggestions on how managers involved in future plant closings can learn from the Signetics experience. -Library Journal
An instructive look at what problems to anticipate and how to minimize the traumatic effects of job loss. -Booklist
Illes does an excellent job of capturing the feelings of employees and managers alike in the process of a plant closing. Any company contemplating a significant downsizing or plant closing should require their line and HR managers to read this book. -Albert Brault, Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, Cornell University